About Me
Welcome to my personal blog. I'm Mark Barnes and I have been into computing for 28 years now. My early forays into programming in Z80 assembly language seem so distant now I can hardly believe how far technology has progressed.
Since 2001, I have been extremely interested in agile development practises and was an avid follower of ObjectMentor, XP and AgileModeling. For the past 8 years I have seen many of the agile practises mature into methodologies but have been struck by the lack of true agile on the ground. Agile is now a corporate buzzword which is almost synonymous with a get out of jail free card.
I have spent the majority of the last 8 years introducing agile techniques into large and small development teams.
I love the agile culture, but at all times I remain pragmatic in its application... There are no silver bullets 
- Crackle and pop? There's a snap for that.
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Recent Posts
- Thank you Rhod Gilbert
- The Agile Jigsaw Puzzle
- Enterprise Agile – Evolutionary Standards
- Keeping It Simple – Regression vs Acceptance Testing
- Top Tips – User Centred Automated Acceptance Tests
- “Natural Language” Automated Acceptance Testing
- Limitations of “Grow Your Own” Agile
- Functional Debt
- Vision >= Solution >= Problem
- Ten Commandments of Agile
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Blogroll
- Alex Adamopoulos
- Alistair Cockburn
- Andy Hunt
- Ben Hoskins
- Dan North
- Dave Thomas
- James Shore
- Jim Highsmith
- Joel On Software
- Martin Fowler
- Michael Feathers
- Object Mentor
- Portia Tung
- Scott Ambler
- Stephen Walther
- Ward Cunningham
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